Technology is primarily an amplifier, so it's imperative that it amplifies the right thing.
Silicon Valley's lost decade: consumer ceded to aggregators, software "innovation" meant SaaSy CRUD for some vertical niche. We forgot software could be anything else. Infinite software means we can dream again.
AI companions designed by corporations will feel like friendship, but work like social media. A dangerous combination!
Hollow vs. resonant experiences @komorama explains how we’ve optimized our way into a crisis of meaning:
LLMs allow us to electrify software, making it coactive, practically alive.
What would it look like to decentralize apps? That app is the nexus of power because it is where the data lives. The app is at the top of the stack deciding what pixels to render. Decentralization at other layers doesn't matter nearly as much.
What if instead of buying software from a store, you could grow it in your garden?
Most vibe coding tools produce Potemkin software. Demos great, falls over in the slightest breeze. We need infrastructure where strangers can refine vibe-coded software so improvements benefit everyone... yet it's somehow still safe with your private data.
Your perfect personal use case is an edge case for an aggregator.
Software should feel like a personal garden that grows for you, not something some stranger constructed.
Imagine software that doesn't feel like visiting the DMV, but like working with a master craftsperson who knows exactly what you need.
Software today is like eating canned corn from the convenience store. What if it could be more like a personal farmer's market?
Code is like a skeleton, LLMs are like muscle. Skeleton alone: precise structure that can't move. Muscle alone: quivering mass on the floor with no leverage. Put them together correctly and you get a body capable of threading a needle or throwing a fastball.
AI should be a tool, not a friend. Tools extend your agency. Synthetic 'friends' are engagement optimization in disguise. The Star Trek computer never said "good morning."
Data is alienable. Because it replicates so easily, once it's out of your sight it's out of your control. When used behind your back, it loses its contextual integrity—alienated from your intention, turned against your interest. How can we make your data always work for you?
For the power of coactive UIs to be unleashed, they have to be turing complete: able to add not just content but also code to themselves. That's where all the power to make it truly coactive comes from... but also with the wrong security model, it will be dangerous!
LLMs can do qualitative nuance at quantitative scale. This ability can be used for you, or against you. By default, it will be used against you. Distilling dossiers to engage, manipulate, or even blackmail you. But we can also use it to help live aligned with our aspirations.
Every enterprise has a system of record. Every person has... email: a compost heap. What we need: a garden that grows from that compost. Something we tend, prune, curate. An emergent system of record for our personal lives. LLMs should handle the weeding. We should choose…
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